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Tonsor explains that educators and parents need to do more to counteract the bad influence of comic books and pulp magazines on their children. He provides various suggestions.

Provides suggestions as to how high school English teachers can more effectively teach reading and writing skills to their students. Briefly discusses Wertham and comics books, but mentions that Wertham has been discredited by other academics.

Students from all levels of education are interviewed to determine why they were interested in comics.

Summarizes a variety of previously conducted studies to explore the potential pedagogical uses of comics.

Covers some small, education-related news items, and similar matters of interest. Comics receive considerable attention.

A high school teacher contests the idea that reading material influences a child's development.

A study of the reading comprehension skills of high school students. Participants were asked to complete reading and vocabulary tests to determine how well they actually understood the text-based content of comics.

Kinneman discusses the results of a questionnaire she asked students to fill out. Some of the recorded student responses echo ideas held by anti-comic journalists and psychiatrists.

Presents the results of an experiment to test whether comics could significantly contribute to the teaching of reading and writing skills. This article also provides suggestions of specific comics that can be studied at different grade levels.

Gruenberg argues that people often feared innovation in technological and mediums of expression, and cites this the reason for the criticism against comics.